Tag Archive: Motherhood

I don’t believe in pushing every one of my interests and hobbies on to my kids. Yet, that didn’t stop me from methodically making sure that they would love listening to (and watching) Broadway shows as much as I do. I wrote all about how I became a Broadway fanatic for Brain, Child Magazine this…

I am incredibly honored that a publication I highly respect, Brain, Child Magazine, has published the essay I performed for the Listen to Your Mother show. People have asked me when the You Tube link will be available. That link will go live some time in the summer. But now you can read the essay on…

Last Thursday for the first time in my life I stood on a stage as a WRITER and “performed” an essay in front of around 500 people. And I survived! My heart was pounding in my chest as the two fantastic cast members ahead of me went up one by one. Soon it was my…

I’m a little too good at keeping my world small and simple. It’s a control thing. I suffer from the need for that– for the sense, however false, that I have a handle on all the spinning plates, that nothing will blindside me. I’ve always been like that, even before I had kids. Whatever tiny…

This week I’m over at a very cool blog called 3 Things for Mom where each day a different blogger offers a “truth,” a “tip,” and a “find.” I’m following some big shoes so I hope it’s received well over there! My truth deals with what I consider the essential key to good friendship. My…

Today’s “Hobbies and Habits” guest blogger, Sarah Baughman, has a post that speaks directly to ME. I’ve struggled quite a bit in the past few years with how to make more time to write. I have no problem making time to blog because I absolutely love it, but my more “serious” writing gets pushed to…

Do you frame every scribble that comes home from school? Fashion Dora the Explorer out of whole grain bread for your child’s lunch? Sob at the end of summer break because it means time away from your child? Then Jill Smokler’s debut book of essays Confessions of a Scary Mommy is NOT for you. Everyone else? I’ve…

Call me crazy. Call me lazy. Call me the worst mother in America. But it won’t make me care about getting my kids into an Ivy League school. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you haven’t read the Wall Street Journal’s “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior.” The essay, an excerpt from Amy…

Welcome! I'm the friendship columnist at The HerStories Project and a contributing writer for Tcjewfolk.com, Kveller.com, and Great New Books. My essays have appeared regularly at Brain, Child Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Jewish Daily Forward, and have been syndicated in The Times of Israel as well as Jewish newspapers across the country. I live in Minneapolis with my husband and 4 children, and I'm so glad you found your way here.

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